Figure 1: Climate and biome differences in soil nitrogen deficit and evolutionary stable strategies (ESS) of dinitrogen fixation. To capture succession, our model (Methods) considers a stage ...

Such nitrogen fixation, as it is known, is a fundamental limit on plant growth and an essential nutrient for all life. Yet, this critically important cycle remains poorly understood. "We don't ...

Some bacteria found in marine waters can convert nitrogen gas (N2) to ammonia (known as N2 fixation), and thereby supply the marine food web with nitrogen. It has puzzled scientists for years ...

It has puzzled scientists for years whether and how bacteria, that live from dissolved organic matter in marine waters, can carry out N 2 fixation ... on the oceanic nitrogen cycle compared ...

Nitrogen fixation is surprisingly high in the ocean's coastal waters and may play a larger role than expected in carbon dioxide uptake, a new study shows. The findings -- based on thousands of ...

Researchers have developed a simpler pathway, involving a newly known minimum of seven genes that allow the plant cell to ...

"The goal is to place genes into the crops' mitochondria and chloroplast, enabling them to generate sufficient energy to drive nitrogen fixation," Yang says. "This is a pretty cool piece of evidence.